创世记-Genesis第13章

乐园李老师

创13:1  亚伯兰带着他的妻子与罗得，并一切所有的，都从埃及上南地去。
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

创13:2  亚伯兰的金，银，牲畜极多。
Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

创13:3  他从南地渐渐往伯特利去，到了伯特利和艾的中间，就是从前支搭帐棚的地方，
From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier

创13:4  也是他起先筑坛的地方，他又在那里求告耶和华的名。
and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord .

创13:5  与亚伯兰同行的罗得也有牛群，羊群，帐棚。
Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

创13:6  那地容不下他们，因为他们的财物甚多，使他们不能同居。
But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

创13:7  当时，迦南人与比利洗人在那地居住。亚伯兰的牧人和罗得的牧人相争。
And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

创13:8  亚伯兰就对罗得说，你我不可相争，你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相争，因为我们是骨肉（原文作弟兄）。
So Abram said to Lot, 'Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.

创13:9  遍地不都在你眼前吗？请你离开我，你向左，我就向右。你向右，我就向左。
Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left.'

创13:10 罗得举目看见约旦河的全平原，直到琐珥，都是滋润的，那地在耶和华未灭所多玛，蛾摩拉以先如同耶和华的园子，也像埃及地。
Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

创13:11 于是罗得选择约旦河的全平原，往东迁移。他们就彼此分离了。
So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

创13:12 亚伯兰住在迦南地，罗得住在平原的城邑，渐渐挪移帐棚，直到所多玛。
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

创13:13 所多玛人在耶和华面前罪大恶极。
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord .

创13:14 罗得离别亚伯兰以后，耶和华对亚伯兰说，从你所在的地方，你举目向东西南北观看。
The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, 'Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.

创13:15 凡你所看见的一切地，我都要赐给你和你的后裔，直到永远。
All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.

创13:16 我也要使你的后裔如同地上的尘沙那样多，人若能数算地上的尘沙才能数算你的后裔。
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.

创13:17 你起来，纵横走遍这地，因为我必把这地赐给你。
Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.'

创13:18 亚伯兰就搬了帐棚，来到希伯仑幔利的橡树那里居住，在那里为耶和华筑了一座坛。
So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.